An astonishing book . --Hermione Lee, Financial Times. an original masterpiece. . .
An extraordinary imagining .
Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? The irrationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one\'s own fate--these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor unique to the art of Penelope Fitzgerald.
It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends.
Fritz seeks his father\'s permission to wed his heart\'s heart, his spirit\'s guide--a plain, simple child named Sophie von K hn.
It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis. -- New York Times Book Review The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany.
Fitzgerald\'s greatest triumph. . .
An astonishing book
